GAZA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today announced that funding shortages have forced it to reduce food assistance in Gaza by around one-third: half a million people will lose access to critical assistance. The cuts come as winter approaches and recent modest improvements in food security remain fragile.
RAMALLAH, Palestine ¨C The Government of the Republic of Korea has provided USD 5 million to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to deliver cash-based assistance to over 100,000 conflict-affected Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, helping families meet their most essential needs.
JERUSALEM ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today announced that due to critical funding constraints, it is cutting in half the number of people it can support with food assistance in the West Bank. The reduction comes at a time when food needs have more than doubled since 2023.
RAMALLAH, Palestine ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today signed and exchanged an international agreement with the Government of Japan for a grant of JPY 500 million (or approximately USD 3.1 million) to deliver lifesaving food and nutrition assistance to Palestinians facing severe food insecurity.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a USD 30 million contribution from the Republic of Korea (ROK) to launch the second phase of the ROK-Â鶹ÊÓƵ REACH initiative (Responding with Emergency Assistance for Conflict-affected Households), providing emergency food and nutrition assistance to vulnerable populations affected by conflict, displacement, and economic shocks.
Yokohama - The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of US$67.3 million from the Government of Japan to provide assistance to vulnerable people affected by conflict, natural disasters, and economic crises in 27 countries across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
CAIRO/PORT SAID, Egypt ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a critical contribution from France to support life saving nutrition assistance for vulnerable families in the Gaza Strip.
GAZA, Palestine ¨C One hundred days into the ceasefire, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has significantly expanded its life saving operations across the Gaza Strip, reaching more than one million people each month. While critical progress has been made in pushing back famine, the situation remains extremely fragile. Sustained access through all crossings, the flow of humanitarian and commercial goods, and the continuation of the ceasefire are essential to prevent Gaza from sliding back into catastrophic hunger.
FAO, UNICEF, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and WHO say hunger, malnutrition, disease and the scale of agricultural destruction remain alarmingly high
Rome/Geneva/New York ¨C The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis for Gaza confirms that no areas of the Strip are currently classified in famine following the October ceasefire and improved humanitarian and commercial access. This welcome progress remains extremely fragile as the population continues to struggle with massive infrastructure destruction and collapsed livelihoods and local food production, given restrictions on humanitarian operations.
Conflict and violence are driving extreme hunger in six major crises
ROME ¨C A new joint report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that acute food insecurity is deepening in 16 hunger hotspots, which threatens to drive millions more into famine or risk of famine.
GAZA, Palestine ¨C Three weeks into the ceasefire, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has distributed food parcels to one million people in the Gaza Strip as part of a broad operation to push back hunger in the war-torn territory. But to continue expanding operations to the level required, humanitarian teams need more border crossings to be opened and more access to key roads inside Gaza.
GAZA, Palestine ¨C As food distributions start up again after the ceasefire, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is providing assistance to families across Gaza through its wide-ranging distribution system. This includes bakeries, nutritional support, digital payments to families most at risk, and distribution of family food boxes.
ROME/GAZA ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has begun scaling up its operations in Gaza, as the ceasefire paves the way for humanitarian agencies to reach vulnerable populations that have been cut off from vital aid in the war-torn territory.
JERUSALEM ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Palestine welcomes a US$12 million donation from the Government and people of the Republic of Indonesia to support its humanitarian operations in Gaza.
¡°Gaza: Stories of Hope and Resilience¡± presents Ahmed Muhanna¡¯s artwork, offering a personal lens on life, loss and resilience in Gaza amid deepening hunger.
BRUSSELS ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), with the support of the European Union (EU), is launching ¡°Gaza: Stories of Hope and Resilience¡±, a travelling art exhibition that brings the work of Gazan painter Ahmed Muhanna to European audiences for the first time. Opening in Brussels on 15 September, the exhibition will tour nine cities across Europe through October 2025.
CAIRO, Egypt ¨C Children benefiting from national school meal programmes across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) increased by 22 percent in the past two years alone, despite conflict, economic downturn and the region¡¯s complex humanitarian landscape.
JERUSALEM ¨C Safe, unfettered humanitarian access to reach the most vulnerable families is the top priority right now, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Executive Director Cindy McCain said after visiting the Gaza Strip where she witnessed firsthand immense destruction and desperation.
Ramallah ¨C The Government of the Republic of Korea today announced USD 30 million in humanitarian assistance to support lifesaving interventions in Gaza through the United Nations Children¡¯s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), in coordination with the Palestinian government.
FAO, UNICEF, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger and malnutrition
Joint FAO/UNICEF/WHO/Â鶹ÊÓƵ News Release
ROME/GENEVA/NEW YORK ¨C More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released today. Famine conditions are projected to spread from Gaza Governorate to Deir Al Balah and Khan Younis Governorates in the coming weeks.
GAZA, Palestine ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) continues to bring convoys of food aid into Gaza virtually every day but dire operating conditions prevent the delivery of life-saving supplies at the scale needed to push back escalating starvation. At the same time, increasing lawlessness inside the territory is hindering supplies from reaching the most vulnerable people.
NEW YORK/ROME ¨C Gaza faces the grave risk of famine as food consumption and nutrition indicators have reached their worst levels since the conflict began, according to data shared in the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Alert.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ welcomes the news that Israel is prepared to implement humanitarian pauses, and that designated humanitarian corridors will be created, to facilitate the safe movement of UN convoys delivering emergency food supplies and other aid to people in Gaza.
